Subj : Echotag is the topic.
To   : Bj”rn Felten
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sat Dec 21 2013 11:58:20

Hello Bj”rn,

On Friday December 20 2013 13:49, you wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 BP>> just plain stupid to put ip in nodelist when we nearly all going
 BP>> dual stacked

 BF>    Especially now that the binkp.net DNS service works so very well.

It works well. Until it stops working. Remember what happened to Fidonet.net? Binkp.net is subject to the same vulnerability.

 BF> Whenever I discover a bink related connection problem, it's almost
 BF> always because I have some old URL "hard coded" here. I'm slowly
 BF> removing them one by one...

The problem is not that there is something wrong with literal IP addresses or host names in the nodelist, the problem is that your mailer software does not follow the nodelist. If it would extract the information from the nodelist - just like the binkp.net keeper does btw - instead of extracting the info from a hard coded configuration file, there would be no problem.


Cheers, Michiel

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